14/11/2025
Do you know that many of today’s terror!sts and band!ts were once innocent children, abandoned on the streets because their parents couldn’t cater for their responsibilities?
Let’s stop deceiving ourselves, the root of insecurity in Northern Nigeria is not just poverty, illiteracy or whatsoever, it is irresponsibility and corruption.
Many of today’s criminals were once innocent children, neglected on the streets because their parents couldn’t cater for them and that’s how they end up being recruited into terror!sm.
But who created this poverty? Who stole the money meant for education, healthcare, and jobs? The same politicians who now move around with police escorts and private jets, while millions of children wander hungry and hopeless.
The North is bleeding because the government failed to invest in its people.
Traditional rulers and religious leaders also kept quiet, watching generations waste away. Parents keep giving birth to children they cannot feed, educate, or guide, and the government provides no safety net.
These abandoned children grow up with anger in their hearts and guns in their hands and we dare to ask why terrorism won’t end?
The truth is bitter, our silence, our greed, and our corrupt leaders are creating the next wave of terror!sts if care is not taken.
If something drastic is not done now, if we don’t educate, empower, and plan our families in the next 25 to 30 years, this region will face a disaster beyond imagination because we are not just raising children anymore, we are raising time bombs.
We must act now or we regret our actions.
Malam Jabir